She thought that if she came back so late and just said that she was buying things at the commune, the Cheng family and Lu Pinjie would not believe it. It would not take so long to buy things at the commune, so she thought about how to explain it on the way back.

"So that's how it is!" There was no flaw in Xu Zhixin's explanation, so the Cheng family and Lu Pinjie believed it and no one doubted it.

"Zhixin, have you eaten?" Lu Pinjie asked.

She thought that since Xu Zhixin was invited to her relative's house to play, she would definitely be invited to dinner.

"I've already eaten, at my relative's house." Xu Zhixin replied, "Have you eaten? Captain uncle, Aunt Cuihua, have you and your family eaten?"

Even if she didn't eat enough on the way, she would say she had eaten.

He was invited by a relative to play at his house and came back so late. He must have had dinner at his relative's house.

Although people at that time were poor and lacked food and clothing, they would still invite guests to dinner as long as they had a good relationship with them.

If a relative invites me to his home to play for a long time, it means that they have a good relationship and he will definitely invite me to dinner.

So if you don’t tell others that you have eaten it, it will be exposed and people will become suspicious.

"We haven't had the mood to cook since we haven't seen you come back. The captain's family and I haven't eaten yet." Lu Pinjie replied.

"I'm so sorry. You're still hungry because I haven't eaten yet. You should go and cook for yourself." Xu Zhixin showed an apologetic look on her face again.

Lu Pinjie and the Cheng family nodded together. Lu Pinjie said, "Captain Uncle, your family cooks first. When you're done, I'll make some pancakes for you."

Ever since they had eaten the wild pigeons caught by Xu Zhixin at the captain's house, she and Xu Zhixin had never gone to the captain's house for dinner again, and had been eating separately from the captain's family for several days.

"You make the pancakes first. We'll cook after you finish. It's faster to make pancakes." Liu Cuihua said kindly, and the other members of the Cheng family nodded in agreement.

Lu Pinjie thought about it for a moment and then nodded in agreement. It would be disrespectful to refuse the good intentions of others.

Lu Pinjie went to her and Xu Zhixin's room to get flour to make pancakes. Xu Zhixin also returned to her room. She had already eaten and didn't need to help Lu Pinjie make dinner. Lu Pinjie could make the pancakes by herself. She had nothing to do now.

She thought about taking out the little red book from her room and familiarizing herself with the quotations of great men, so that she would have a chance of winning the competition of reciting quotations of great men in two days.

Although she and Lu Pinjie did not live in the educated youth center, they were educated youth after all. Whenever there were activities at the center, the person in charge of the center, Wei Hongzhi, would ask them to participate, and they couldn't refuse to go.

Wei Hongzhi, like most of the educated youth at that time, had a red heart. I heard from Zhu Yong that he would take the educated youth at the educated youth point to organize a red activity every month. This month's activity was a competition to recite quotations from great men. The competition would be held in the evening two days later. The winner would receive a Hero brand fountain pen.

Although it is just an ordinary Hero brand fountain pen, not a gold pen, it is still considered precious at that time.

At that time, many intellectuals had a dream of owning a Hero brand pen. Although she did not have such a dream, she had a bad habit: she liked to win and did not like to lose.

Whenever she participates in a competition, she will try her best to win. She just wants to win, not for the prizes. In fact, she is not very interested in prizes.

Therefore, she will not only participate in this competition of reciting quotations from great men, but will also strive to win first place.

Although she had already finished reading the entire Little Red Book and memorized all the words with her extraordinary memory, in order to win first place in the competition, she thought she should familiarize herself with the quotations of great men in the Little Red Book when she had time to memorize them firmly.